When Is It Appropriate to Wear a Light Colored Suit?
When Is It Appropriate to Wear a Light Colored Suit? By Chris Vance When we think of the quintessential power suit the image of a dark suit, bright tie and white shirt quickly comes to mind. For decades this image has been synonymous with the wall street raider, flesh eating lawyer and cold hearted captain of industry. This was the power suit. We bought into to it and soon had closets full of the "Donald Trump." Then funny enough during the late nineties something happened. It was the internet bubble and the business casual revolution. The new power went from dark suit to jeans and t-shirts, from Salvatore Ferragamo to flip flops.The next 4-5 years would turn American office dress codes on its head as more and more non tech businesses adopted a more business casual attitude.When the bubble finally burst there was no turning back to the "bigger is better" attitude left by the power hungry 80's. That was 2 bubbles ago and with the great recession comes the return ...